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CyberUK 24: UK insurance industry gets tough on ransomware

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The Association of British Insurers (ABI), the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) and the International Underwriting Association (IUA) have joined with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in a coalition aiming to toughen approaches to ransomware payments and bring down the volumes of such payments made by UK organisations. Launched on the opening day of…

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QStar launches tape access from anywhere with Global ArchiveSpace

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Access to hundreds of tape drives in archives that scale to exabytes from anywhere in the world, with all data held in a single namespace. That’s what’s on offer from QStar, which launched its Global ArchiveSpace last month, aiming at access to infrequently accessed data for artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC) workloads and hyperscaler…

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Huge Dell leak shows new Snapdragon X laptops should have superb battery life – and we’ve been told when its successor CPU will arrive

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Qualcomm’s incoming Snapdragon X Elite (and Plus) processors are going to offer a seriously eye-opening level of battery life, a fresh leak suggests – and we’ve got an indication of when the next-gen ARM-based successors to these CPUs will emerge, too.All this comes from a massive Dell leak that VideoCardz picked up, consisting of a…

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Nvidia and MediaTek could be cooking up a powerful laptop CPU to blow away Snapdragon X Elite – or even Apple’s M4

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Qualcomm’s imminent Snapdragon X Elite and Plus CPUs are causing plenty of excitement, but they don’t exist in a vacuum – there are of course rivals in the laptop processor world, and perhaps another one is in the works from some big players.As highlighted on X (formerly Twitter) by analyst Dan Nystedt (via Wccftech), there’s…

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tvOS 17.5 is now available to Apple TV users with these changes

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tvOS 17.5 is now available to everyone with an Apple TV that can run tvOS. While Apple didn’t provide release notes for this operating system update, Cupertino is enhancing the experience on its set-top box while making it more secure. That said, it doesn’t seem tvOS 17.5 brings anything major, as Apple is already preparing…

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Scotland’s Post Office scandal victims to be exonerated en masse

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The Scottish Parliament is introducing legislation to exonerate all subpostmasters convicted based on evidence from the controversial Post Office Horizon system. Mirroring legislation in Westminster, which covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Scottish Parliament will exonerate hundreds of former subpostmasters and branch staff who were convicted based on Horizon system evidence. In the Westminster…

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OpenAI debuts GPT-4o model, new desktop app, and more

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OpenAI has debuted some big changes coming to its AI chatbot, including its new ChatGPT GPT-4o update, a desktop app, and some other big changes users can expect to see soon. Here are all of the biggest announcements from the OpenAI spring update.A new GPT model Perhaps one of the biggest announcements to come out…

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OpenAI’s big reveal: Making ChatGPT feel and sound so much more human

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OpenAI employees and acolytes were all over Twitter in the lead-up to Monday’s spring update from the company, so much so that the breathless hype was practically unavoidable. “The world will change forever,” one tweet promised. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman teased that what was coming felt like “magic” to him. And this was all on…

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China poses genuine and increasing cyber security risk to UK, says GCHQ director

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China poses a genuine and increasing cyber risk to the UK, the director of Britain’s electronic intelligence gathering agency said today.Anne Keast-Butler used her first major public speech as director of GCHQ to call out China’s development of hostile hacking capabilities.The warning reflects concerns by western intelligence agencies that the People’s Republic of China (PRC)…

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ChatGPT GPT-4o just nailed the live demo that Google had to fake for Gemini

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OpenAI’s big ChatGPT event is over, and I can safely say the company severely downplayed it when it said on Twitter that it would “demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.” Sam Altman’s teaser that it would be new stuff “we think people will love,” and the detail that it “feels like magic to me” best…

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